This year marks the 25th anniversary of the first Armidale Autumn Parade and, as far as I could see, it was the biggest and best yet with 66 different component entries - social, cultural, commercial, community service, historical, educational, theatrical, musical and so on. And the length of the parade was amazing. It must have been something like 5 km long and it took something like 80 minutes to pass by as it wound through town.
I took over 60 pictures of the event, but I cannot provide them all in this post, so I'll just select some of the more interesting to give you a flavour of the parade. As with the other events I've written about this morning, the weather was poor, but that didn't seem to faze either the performers / participants or the sizeable audience. So, we start with the Armidale Pipe band heading the Parade.
Followed by some enormous pieces of scary Council equipment like this machine for tearing up road surfaces.
Then came a community bus from the little town of Guyra to our north.
And a parade of antique cars like this 1907 model.
Then came some school floats like this one containing Aboriginal kids, followed by marching students from various university colleges like this group.
Next we saw an amazing array of nationalities living in Armidale, starting with Antigua, Barbuda and Bangladesh, and going on to such nations as Bhutan, Syria and Vietnam.
Here we have the Tamworth Pipers heading up another stage in the proceedings.
They were followed by a whacky duo on models of antique vehicles and soon after by a whimsical theatrical group, some boy scouts, and another school contingent that was a bit more razzmatazz than the others.
Next came various community groups including these environmentalists, medieval warriors, theatrical participants in a show called Monty Python's Spamalot, and the Marching Koalas!
The next elements in the parade were service providers like the Armidale Community Carevan, a group providing tourists with conducted motorcycle tours, the army, hunters, and emergency service workers.
They, in turn, were followed by private machinery suppliers, lovers of old farm machinery, and more vehicles form state emergency services, some of whom didn't look quite human!
AS
I took over 60 pictures of the event, but I cannot provide them all in this post, so I'll just select some of the more interesting to give you a flavour of the parade. As with the other events I've written about this morning, the weather was poor, but that didn't seem to faze either the performers / participants or the sizeable audience. So, we start with the Armidale Pipe band heading the Parade.
Followed by some enormous pieces of scary Council equipment like this machine for tearing up road surfaces.
Then came a community bus from the little town of Guyra to our north.
And a parade of antique cars like this 1907 model.
Then came some school floats like this one containing Aboriginal kids, followed by marching students from various university colleges like this group.
Next we saw an amazing array of nationalities living in Armidale, starting with Antigua, Barbuda and Bangladesh, and going on to such nations as Bhutan, Syria and Vietnam.
Here we have the Tamworth Pipers heading up another stage in the proceedings.
They were followed by a whacky duo on models of antique vehicles and soon after by a whimsical theatrical group, some boy scouts, and another school contingent that was a bit more razzmatazz than the others.
Next came various community groups including these environmentalists, medieval warriors, theatrical participants in a show called Monty Python's Spamalot, and the Marching Koalas!
The next elements in the parade were service providers like the Armidale Community Carevan, a group providing tourists with conducted motorcycle tours, the army, hunters, and emergency service workers.
They, in turn, were followed by private machinery suppliers, lovers of old farm machinery, and more vehicles form state emergency services, some of whom didn't look quite human!
AS
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